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Platelet ultrastructural abnormalities in three patients with type 2B von Willebrand disease.
British journal of haematology - 1 Sept 2000
Nurden P, Chretien F, Poujol C, Winckler J, Borel-Derlon A, Nurden A
Abstract excerpt
Several reports have described the presence of giant platelets in patients with type 2B von Willebrand disease (VWD). We have now characterized the ultrastructural changes in platelets from three unrelated patients with type 2B VWD and different mutations within exon 28 of the von Willebrand factor (VWF) gene. Electron microscopy showed that each of these subjects had an increased proportion of large platelets...
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